"If we don't tell our story, then nobody will know."

Donald M. Griffith

Donald M. Griffith, 2003 War: Korean War, 1950-1955 Branch: Marine Corps Unit: F Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Regiment, 1st Marine Division Service Location: Japan; Korea Rank: Staff Sergeant POW: Yes Place of Birth: Toledo, OH

Donald Griffith's account of three years as a prisoner of North Korea reads like a laundry list of indignities, beginning with his captors' indifference to wounds he suffered immediately before his imprisonment. He was thrown into a pig pen for a month and saw a fellow G.I. lose his mind and die, he watched in horror as another soldier's diseased feet came right off with his boots, and he was temporarily blinded after being subjected to medical experiments. He cites his superior training by the Marines as an advantage in surviving his POW ordeals.